Will Hairs Survive FUE Transplant?

Hello,Washing your hair after a hair transplantation is an important step for restoration.  We usually have our patients start spraying hair with lactated ringers with liposomal ATP as well as other growth factors twice a day to help your hair process start ASAP.  Actual hair washing usually takes place several days after the procedure.  There are several advantages to this approach:
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Anil Shah

If you are asking if the hairs can continue to grow (without going dormant) immediately after the transplant, then the answer is YES.  It occurs in a very lucky condition.

Well, the hair follicles better survive, as that is the basis of a hair transplant.  Usually the transplanted hairs will fall out, but occasionally they continue to grow - not likely, but occasionally.

Whether the harvesting technique is FUE or strip harvesting, the important part to survive is the follicle. The hairs that are present may fall out in about a week, then grow back in 3-4 months.  However, this happens much less frequently with single follicular unit grafts.

Survival in FUE transplants is dependent on multiple factors and requires years of training and experience.  Some centers just do what they can to get patients in and out the door.  But everything form dehydration, to micro trauma, to cytokines play a role. FUT and FUE are also very different procedures so if you are interested in FUE, try to choose a dedicated and experienced FUE team.  Here is a video of an FUE graft placement.

Follicle survival depend on how well the graft has been handled during the harvesting and transplanting phase. There is new evidence to show techniques of handling the grafts and solution of PRP enhance survival by 15%.

If the FUE is done by a skilled surgeon and a skilled surgical team, it will grow unless you have some form of a skin disease. Don't worry.

The important thing is for the follicle, the structure that makes the hair, to survive. Sometimes the the little hair in the follicle just starts growing, sometimes it falls out, but as long as the follicle is OK, it will make a new hair. We suggest that our patients use Rogaine before and after surgery. It may help the transplanted hair to keep growing rather than fall out.

In most hair transplants the follicular unit is placed in a recipient site. This is the same whether the graft was created by FUE or strip harvesting.  Within 2 weeks, the hair shaft usually falls out and a new hair starts growing taking 3 months to get to the skin surface. On occasion, fine single hair follicular unit grafts placed at the very front of the hairline do not go through this "resting" phase and continue to grow.